VIDEO: It's Emily Dickinson's Birthday. Listen to a Reading of "Success is Counted Sweetest"
Today, December 10, is Emily Dickinson’s birthday. Listen to a reading — two, actually — of “Success is Counted Sweetest,” one of only a handful of Dickinson’s poems that were published in her lifetime. Joyce Carol Oates called Dickinson a “poet of paradox,” and this is one of the most paradoxical — and acclaimed — of her works.